Maria Ana Neves Ana Neves itibaren Tiefenbronn, Germany itibaren Tiefenbronn, Germany

** spoiler alert ** Three stars is me being generous. Now here's the thing...I love the story...even the back story is solid. But the here and now present day things like conversations between Bella and Edward or Bella and Jacob...oh they are hard to sit through. It reminds me of the kinds of essays kids write when they're first learning to write essays...something like "Apples are the best fruit because they taste good.. Apples taste good because they are the best fruit. You should eat apples, because they are better than Pineapples. IF you don't like apples, you should give them a chance, because they are obviously better than any other fruit..." and what I mean by that is, Stephenie MEyer has this awful habit of making her characters say the same thing in twenty different ways throughout the course of a conversation. Does she have some kind of page quota she's trying to meet? Does every conversation have to be filled with issues that Bella is constantly juggling? I was a melodramatic teenager once, and I do remember it well. It wasn't a completely rational time, and I know I spent hours processing things an adult might be done with in minutes, but this isn't real life we're talking about! This is a book! We don't need to know the minute by minute play by play of every drawn out conversation. I get that time seems to drag when you're a mere mortal teenager, but does it have to drag for the reader? Do I have to go through six pages of painful dialogue before I get to something interesting again. And don't get me started on the language....while the melodrama is very teenage in nature, the language of the characters is often unfitting. How many teenage boys do you know who would be comfortable calling a girl "Honey" as Jacob does throughout New Moon and Eclipse? It's awkward at best. Sometimes I think Meyer looks for the most complicated way to convey an idea when she writes her characters' dialogue...resulting in, once again, none of the characters talking like real people. uggghhh!!! awkward! and my last issue is Bella... please tell me teenage girls don't want to be like her! Please! Like some kind of southern belle she faints every five minutes...she swoons...she breaks into tears at the drop of a hat...and she is constantly being carried around and rescued by her suitors. She is also quite dense. The reader is always ten steps ahead of Bella which makes it tedious to watch her come to the conclusion we've all come to in the last book. Now she's supposed to be smart. She gets good grades, and for some reason people are drawn to her, but reading things from her point of view, I totally get why she doesn't understand that. I don't get it either. She is not endearing, and yet she is treated as so precious throughout the books... She constantly makes all the same mistakes girls in horror movies seem to make...like entering a darkened house or stepping outside in the dark when there is obviously a vampire with a vendetta stalking her. Kissing Edward makes her forget that a war is going on outside???? How shallow can she be? And we're supposed to believe the love between Bella and Edward has depth??